On Fri, Mar 31, 2017 at 3:00 PM, Stuart Prescott <stu...@debian.org> wrote: > Package: wnpp > Severity: wishlist > Owner: Stuart Prescott <stu...@debian.org> > > * Package name : dh-curl-sudo-bash > Version : 1.1 > Upstream Author : Lars Wirzenius <l...@liw.fi> and Stuart Prescott > <stu...@debian.org> > * URL : http://deb.li/U67E > * License : BSD 3 clause > Programming Lang: POSIX shell, Perl
For better portability could be reimplemented in javascript of the day using nodejs as engine. I will also like a project like this to be cut in a dozen of packages for better reusuability. Piping could be implemented using a few different nodejs package. could you let the choice to the user ? About BSD3 could you please relicence under another license like MIT or zlib ? Thank you > Description : debhelper tools for automated non-packaging > > The dh-curl-sudo-bash package provides a build-system method for debhelper > that automates the non-packaging of programs for which the preferred form of > distribution is the sequence > > "curl http://example.com/setup.sh | sudo bash -" > > dh-curl-sudo-bash causes debhelper to create a maintainer post-install script > that runs the above command on the target machine when the package is > installed. > Running dpkg-reconfigure is therefore enough to upgrade the package too, thus > preventing problems with upgrades. The dh-curl-sudo-bash source package > Build-Depends on devscripts so that uscan can be embedded into the postinst to > find the correct URL for upgrades. > > Example usage: > > debian/rules: > > %: > dh $@ --buildsystem=curl_sudo_bash > > debian/curl_sudo_bash.watch: > > http://example.com/setup-(.*\..*).sh > > For completeness, other shells can also be selected by exporting the variable > DH_CURL_SUDO_SHELL from debian/rules: > > export DH_CURL_SUDO_SHELL=mksh > > A future extension to dh-curl-sudo-bash is planned that will permit any github > repository to be automatically (non-)packaged; the following version will > iterate over all github and gitlab repositories packaging everything > available. > > We anticipate that this will make all other Debian Developers redundant as > from now on the only thing that is now required to make high quality packages > for Debian is to include the relevant URL. This package also obsoletes the > previous apt-gentoo package. >
